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Anybody have a suggestion as to whether a gate valve or normal brass tap (the garden variety) would be best as the tap on my copper BIAB kettle (modded hot water cylinder) ? At first thought the gate valve as no seal to be affected by heat. Both can be taken apart for full cleaning. Or is there...

Yup - the way I understand it is that there are pipes running under the bins through which the 150 deg C steam circulates to create the heat for drying and kilning in the bin. My understanding is that they step the temperature and then hold it at various points as opposed to a steady increase...

Their malt is available via HBS here in NZ. I haven't seen their Munich for sale though. Also nice is their malt is cheaper than imported malt, as it should be. I am just getting into all grain - busy sorting out my kettle etc for biab - but first planned brew is using Maris Otter with the...

aaaghhhhhh!!! spelling error in title - apologies to all.

I was fortunate enough to find out about an open day at the Malteurop malting plant just up the road from me in Marton, NZ (Google maps view). So my son and I went along to have a look and this is just a report of what we saw and learnt with a few pics to go along. View the whole gallery HERE...

For podcasts I enjoy Basic Brewing and found this site recently which seems to have quite a different "style" to Basic Brewing The Brewing Network

Thanks for all the help, will post some pics of my first attempt. Just finishing off sorting out my voile bag and tun/kettle. cheers

NigeP62 : Your point is taken re a simple recipe not making a difference once you have weighed and combined your grains. For me it is about 1) not incurring the extra cost of partially used packs of grain/malt 2) Using a simple recipe so that I can alter it piece by piece to learn more about...

Hi All, Only found this forum a short while back and have been spending way too much time on it so far - but it has convinced me to give AG a go. For the last couple of years I have been brewing kit and kilo moving to using DME, LME with good yeast as opposed to dextrose and the kit yeast...